Hello Protonians,

Welcome to Newsletter #15.

We bring you another issue of our newsletter full of goodies. Markets reacted negatively to the recent events but we are seeing recovery today already. As always, avoid looking at the charts during times like this.

Stay safe and thank you for your support! 🙏

Proton

We start with the most exciting news - Marshall's interview at Real Vision. Spare one hour of your time and listen to him talking about the future of crypto and Proton:

“Our Vision Is To Build a Global Crypto Bank” | Real Vision

We’re still in the Netscape phase of crypto, according to Marshall Hayner, founder and CEO of Metal Payments, and the future is bright. Hayner sees regulation and user interface as the two pivotal factors affecting mass adoption. While 2021 saw a rapid acceleration of lobbying efforts as well as pub…

Real Vision

Make sure you tune in for the Lunarcrash event with Proton next week, 1st of March at 10AM PST time:

We are happy to share that we released the long-awaited guide on Ledger and Proton XPR:

The Ultimate Guide to Ledger and Proton XPR

Secure your Proton account using Ledger Nano hardware wallet.

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Metal Pay

More coins coming to Metal Pay this week, mainnet deposits & withdrawals for HBAR, SAND, and UNI are now live!

Proton Loan

Proton Loan TVL is still at $16M and locked LOAN in staking is at 20B after the first week of its release which is a very good sign. Why after the first week? Well, a lot of people staked a minimum of one week when the staking went live. Some members of the community took this even further by staking for a period of 4 years! The LOAN supply page has been also updated to reflect all these metrics now:

Make sure you vote on this telegram poll whether Proton team should add a 200M LOAN reward with each new asset added to the platform:

Marshall in Proton Loan - LOAN

Should we add LOAN rewards for new assets we add to the protocol? XUSDT, etc50m LOAN / 100m LOAN / 200m LOAN / 0 LOAN

Telegram

Also in the telegram chat, Marshall mentioned that the team is also exploring deflation mechanisms for LOAN. It's great to watch how the platform develops and also be part of it.

NFTs

Sebastian who was part of ProNFT marketplace has now moved on and released another cool and useful product running on Proton Chain - Proton Rewards. It helps creators automatically share rewards between NFT holders:

And another week with Proton Mint releasing update - 3D NFTs are not supported on Proton Mint:

We finally see another NFT marketplace coming to life - SOON.MARKET. We first heard about them not long time ago, make sure you check their Twitter timeline and the their marketplace that looks really cool:

ProtonUK

We couldn't be happier and more grateful! It was only last week that we reached 800M votes and earlier this week we reached 900M votes! We couldn't do it without your support. Thank you all 🙏

• Proton and Metal data source: CoinMarketCap
• Price change based on Thursday close price using latest data in range (UTC)
• Loan data source: Protonscan (Alcor exchange + Protonswap)
  

I think we can all agree with top NFT seller on Proton Chain - HunterX, that Proton XPR has one of the strongest an loayl communities! It's people like you that make the community so great, thank you all!

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